Saving Babe Ruth Author:Tom Swyers INDIGO VALLEY IS PASSIONATE ABOUT ITS SPORTS — MAYBE TOO PASSIONATE — When lawyer David Thompson, a Civil War buff and art enthusiast, volunteers to serve as commissioner for the town's waning Babe Ruth recreational baseball league, he has no idea what he's getting into. — Backed by the high school baseball program, promoter Rob Barkus is crushing ... more »the Babe Ruth league by luring the town's best players to his high-priced summer travel league with promises of scholarships. If this continues, there wont be enough players for the Babe Ruth league. David's own son, Christy, and his friends will have nowhere to play.
Barkus doesn't stop at wanting the town's best players, he also wants access to the town's best baseball field the Babe Ruth field. When David refuses, a bitter conflict divides the town and threatens his marriage with Annie, his wife.
With the help of Johnny McFadden a newfound friend who's addicted to baseball David concocts an outrageous plan to defend the field and the league. The pair will have to navigate through a baseball underworld of backroom politics, corruption, scandal and crime that extends to the professional sports world. Along the way, they'll discover the true meaning of community sports and they'll be forced to decide if saving baseball is worth the sacrifice.
Based on a true story, Saving Babe Ruth is a humor-laced baseball thriller about a family trying to navigate both the nutty world of youth sports and a school district where kids can easily slip through the cracks. It s also the inspiring tale of a baseball team full of outcasts struggling to believe in themselves. When the time is right, they'll face the prospect of having to fight crazy with crazy to save baseball for themselves, their town and beyond.